The Adafruit Feather ecosystem is so wealthy with {hardware} variety, we needed to share them, one every day. At present is the Adafruit DC Motor + Stepper FeatherWing Add-on For All Feather Boards!
That is the DC Motor + Stepper FeatherWing which can allow you to use 2 x bi-polar stepper motors or 4 x brushed DC motors (or 1 stepper and a pair of DC motors). Utilizing our Feather Stacking Headers or Feather Feminine Headers you possibly can join a FeatherWing on prime or backside of your Feather board and let the board take flight!
The unique Adafruit Motorshield Equipment is certainly one of our most beloved kits, which is why we determined to squish all of it collectively on a FeatherWing to make one thing even smaller, lighter, and extra transportable! As an alternative of utilizing a latch and the Arduino’s PWM pins, we’ve a fully-dedicated PWM driver chip onboard. This chip handles all of the motor and pace controls over I2C.
Because the FeatherWing solely makes use of the I2C (SDA & SCL pins), it really works with any and all Feathers. You’ll be able to stack it with another FeatherWing or with itself (simply ensure you have every wing with a singular I2C deal with) Try our vary of Feather boards right here.
Motor FeatherWing Specs:
- 4 full H-Bridges: the TB6612 chipset offers 1.2A per bridge with thermal shutdown safety, inside kickback safety diodes. Can run motors on 4.5VDC to 13.5VDC.
- As much as 4 bi-directional DC motors with particular person 12-bit pace choice (so, about 0.02% decision)
- As much as 2 stepper motors (unipolar or bipolar) with single coil, double coil, interleaved or micro-stepping.
- Motors robotically disabled on power-up
- Huge 3.5mm terminal block connectors to simply hook up wires (18-26AWG) and energy
- Polarity protected 2-pin terminal block and jumper to attach exterior energy, for separate logic/motor provides
- Fully stackable design: 5 address-select jumper pads means as much as 32 stackable wings: that’s 64 steppers or 128 DC motors! What on earth may you do with that many steppers? I don’t know however if you happen to provide you with one thing ship us a photograph as a result of that may be a fairly superb mission.
- Obtain the easy-to-use Arduino software program library, take a look at the examples and also you’re able to go!
Comes with an assembled & examined FeatherWing, terminal blocks & plain header. Some soldering is required to assemble the headers on. Stacking headers not included, however we promote them within the store so if you wish to stack shields, please choose them up on the similar time. Feather and motors will not be included however we’ve numerous motors within the store. You need to use any DC or stepper motors that run from 4.5-13.5VDC and draw below 1.2A per coil. You’ll possible additionally want to supply some exterior energy provide in your motors, since its not urged you run motors from the Feather’s lipoly battery.
USE
The Adafruit Stepper + DC Motor FeatherWing Information offers all the main points and use examples.
Initiatives
Would you wish to see this FeatherWing in motion? Try the tasks under:
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